How to Approach Teacher Recs.

English33
Fri, 16 Jul 2010 12:09:13 +0000

So, it’s the summer before senior year.
My AP teacher gave us her home email address at the end of the school year. This teacher adored me, I made a 5 on the exam, 99 in her class, I was the department student of the year, and she writes brilliant recommendations. It’s a no-brainer to ask her.
She writes her recommendations over the summer and asked that students contact her no later than Aug. 1st for requests.
My problem is…I have NO idea how to approach the process in the email. Do I need to give her a list of schools to which I am applying (I don’t know yet!!!) Does one general letter suffice? What material do I need to give her?

Basically…how does the whole letters of rec process work??